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" I like everything that makes you fat. "
Helmut Kohl
Everything
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" Solitary decisions, no matter how well-founded they may appear to individuals, must belong to the past - along with national, unilateralist action. "
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" Two decisions have damaged the stability both of the euro and of Europe: the premature admission of Greece to the euro area and the breach and subsequent weakening of the stability and growth pact. "
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" Political life is like this - elections go back and forth. Representative democracy can only be successful if one sits down and says, 'That's it. I will connect myself,' - as I did - 'connect my existence to a political project.' Then you automatically have in your party a lot of people who say, 'If that fails, so do I'. "
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Myself
" I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way. "
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" My parents were Christians - Catholics, but not in the close-minded sense. I remember my mother to be a very pious woman, but she was never against other religions. "
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" We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people. "
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" Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so. "
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Most
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" Our shared historical experiences led myself and Mitterrand to the decision that we must do everything to prevent further wars. "
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Historical
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" The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation. "
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You
Always
Christian
" The most important rule of the new Europe is: There must never again be violence in Europe. "
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Never
Again
Important
" We all need Europe, not just those of us in Europe. And we Germans need Europe more than the others. Germany is the country with the longest border, the most neighbours, and is, by population and economic strength, the number one in Europe. "
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" As a child, I personally didn't really get to know any Jews. I was eight years old when the Night of Broken Glass happened. And Ludwigshafen was purely a workers' city, so we didn't have a very big Jewish community. What I did know about the Jews, I heard from my mother. My mother was very much pro-Jewish. "
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Mother
Night
Broken
" If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events. "
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Go
Know
Leadership
" I experienced Nazism as a child. Like many of my generation, I was motivated by the desire to prevent another war at any price. "
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War
Price
Generation
" Where is Germany now and where does it want to go? It's a question being asked by our partners and allies abroad. We have to return - urgently - to our old dependability. We have to make clear for others what we stand for, where we're headed, and that we know where we belong. "
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Others
Now
Know
" Germany is our fatherland; Europe is our future. "
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Our
Europe
Germany
" Isolated decisions, however well-founded they might seem to the individual, and national go-it-alone moves must belong to the past. They should not be the 21st-century method of choice, particularly because the consequences of the European community's actions must often be carried collectively. "
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Community
Decisions
Seem
" Nations with a common currency never went to war against each other. A common currency is more than the money you pay with. "
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Never
More
Money
" I knew that I could never win a referendum in Germany. We would have lost a referendum on the introduction of the euro. That's quite clear. I would have lost, and by seven to three. "
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Introduction
Win
Three
" There must be no question for us that we in the European Union and the eurozone stand by Greece in solidarity. "
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Solidarity
Question
Greece
" My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear. "
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Life
Childhood
Fear
" If a Chancellor is trying to push something through, he must be a man of power. And if he's smart, he knows when the time is ripe. In one case - the euro - I was like a dictator... The euro is a synonym for Europe. "
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Push
Power
" I have made a very good living, for more than 30 years, by being underestimated. "
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More
Than
Years
" German and European unification are two sides of the same coin. "
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Sides
Two
Coin
" Europe has, to put it mildly, been in a poor state since the transition to the 21st century. This is down to national issues, European missteps, and an economic and financial crisis that crashed down on us with enough force to dislodge the essential European idea. "
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Down
Us
Enough
" In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams. "
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Democracy
You
Your Dreams
" When I was elected to head the German government, I was fortunate enough to find a partner in Francois Mitterrand. "
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Head
Government
Find
" I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history. "
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History
Grades
Leave
" In German history, we don't have many reasons to be proud. "
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German
History
Many